Census-designated place · Bosque County, Texas

Laguna Park, Texas

Laguna Park is a census-designated place in Bosque County, Texas, part of the Waco, TX metro area. It has 1,596 residents. Laguna Park, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 25 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,696 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #405 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on grocery stores (high), students per teacher (low) and job growth (high). It ranks worst on flu vaccinations (low), access to exercise opportunities (low) and traffic deaths (high).

25Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,696 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #405 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,596 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 532.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4840312

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety75#3,907/15,637
Economy45#8,536/15,631
Housing40#8,977/14,977
Health34#10,295/15,609
Healthcare9#14,270/15,650
Environment47#8,159/15,453
Education22#12,275/15,649
Infrastructure17#13,022/15,650
Community35#10,211/15,651
Leisure & amenities34#10,355/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Laguna Park, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Bosque County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Grocery stores · high3.2 /10k
95/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBosque County value
Students per teacher · low10.8×
94/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsBosque County value
Job growth · high3.1%
94/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataBosque County value
Property crime rate · low385 /100k
94/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationBosque County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Texas 5.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBosque County value
Child care cost burden · low21.6%
90/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBosque County value

Weaknesses

Flu vaccinations · low20.0%
1/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBosque County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low30.9%
2/100Texas 82.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBosque County value
Traffic deaths · high30.0 /100k
7/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataBosque County value
Mental health providers · low58 /100k
7/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBosque County value
Reading scores · low2.68
8/100Texas 2.89United States 3.052018University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBosque County value
Hot days · high103 days
9/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationBosque County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,518 (2015-2019) → 1,596 (2020-2024)
+5.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
53.2% (2015-2019) → 12.7% (2020-2024)
−40 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.7% (2015-2019) → 83.9% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
23.7% (2015-2019) → 11.6% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Poverty rateImproving
24.6% (2015-2019) → 13.8% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
87.2% (2015-2019) → 93.2% (2020-2024)
+6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Laguna Park, Texas improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Uninsured−12 points23.7% → 11.6%
Broadband+15 points68.7% → 83.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Laguna Park, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	38.5 min2015-2019	36.6 min2020-2024	−1.9 min	Within the margin of error	69%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.1%2015-2019	16.4%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	68.7%2015-2019	83.9%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
High school diploma or higher	87.2%2015-2019	93.2%2020-2024	+6 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	43%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4492015-2019	0.4752020-2024	+0.026	Within the margin of error	30%
Median household income	$50,0002015-2019	$60,8332020-2024	+22%	Within the margin of error	36%
Poverty rate	24.6%2015-2019	13.8%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.5%2015-2019	27.5%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	23.7%2015-2019	11.6%2020-2024	−12 points	Improved	98%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Laguna Park, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Laguna Park, Texas in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Laguna Park, Texas itself moved −0.4 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,596 residents (±356)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

614 households (±118)

Laguna Park, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k16%†97
$25k–50k26%†157
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

614 households (±118)

Laguna Park, Texas
Texas share

Own79%482
Rent21%†132

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

471 workers (±141)

Laguna Park, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone76%†359
Carpool3.6%†17
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Waco, TX

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Bosque County, the county holding most of Laguna Park's residents.

Bosque County has 315 employer establishments, 166 for every 10,000 residents (0.67× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Texas's), with 2,520 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,473. The Census Bureau also counts 1,846 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 315; 1,846 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 166; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 2,520
Average annual pay: $42,473; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Bosque County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Religious organizations	25	13.2	2.38×More than typical	80	$18,863	—
Specialty trade contractors	25	13.2	0.85×About typical	134	$51,060	230
Restaurants and other eating places	21	11.1	0.60×Fewer than typical	179	$18,151	8
Lessors of real estate	14	7.4	0.60×Fewer than typical	29	$29,621	139
Building equipment contractors	11	5.8	0.97×About typical	74	$49,378	33
Full-service restaurants	11	5.8	0.76×Fewer than typical	71	$14,423	3
Ambulatory health care services	10	5.3	0.25×Fewer than typical	67	$58,075	59
General merchandise stores	9	4.8	2.69×Too few to compare	53	$21,075	14
Other specialty trade contractors	9	4.8	1.89×Too few to compare	38	$34,658	91
Services to buildings and dwellings	9	4.8	0.70×Too few to compare	82	$31,098	154
Banks and credit unions	8	4.2	1.31×Too few to compare	62	$58,242	—
Gasoline stations	8	4.2	1.30×Too few to compare	101	$20,307	5

Rank places for an industry Open Bosque County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 18,936 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $10.1K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Laguna Park, Texas: $6.34 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $10.1K; −22% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6.34; US $1,994
Sole-source: 38%; US 30%
Single offer: 1.8%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of the Army$9,91098%
Federal Acquisition Service$1801.8%
Defense Information Systems Agency$30.670.3%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

15.4KFY2017
22KFY2018
48.3KFY2019
21.3KFY2020
12.7KFY2021
21.8KFY2022
57.8KFY2023
15.5KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$5,61655%
Other specialty trade contractors · 2389$3,78437%
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211$4204.2%
Motor vehicle manufacturing · 3361$1801.8%
Other support services · 5619$1031.0%
Satellite telecommunications · 5174$30.67

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Laguna Park, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Laguna Park, Texas's figures are part of those of Bosque County, TX ($939.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Laguna Park is mostly in Bosque County.

See federal money in Bosque County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Laguna Park, Texas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

John R. CarterR-TX-31 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 1.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Bosque County34100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Waco, TX23

Other cities and towns in Bosque County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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